Ambition Quotes

2147 Ambition quotes by 1378 unique authors

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the… — William A. Clark
I got my degree. More importantly, I got a key to American opportunity. That's who we are - a nation that rewards ambition with opportunity.… — Eva Longoria
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start. — Brian Tracy
A man who lives with intentions is bound to feel frustration. A man who lives with expectations is bound to feel frustrated because existence has… — Rajneesh
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all desires. Suddenly you… — Rajneesh
Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and… — Laozi
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn… — Jimmy Buffett
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people… — Zadie Smith
And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the… — Samuel Adams
People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs. — Richard Avedon
The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It… — Jacques Derrida
England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest… — Mitt Romney
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to… — Andrew Carnegie
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference,… — Napoleon Hill
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION! — Napoleon Hill
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books. []… — William Faulkner
It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money. — Tony Blair
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions… — Wangari Maathai
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness… — Eddie Arcaro
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and… — Thornton Wilder
Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there… — Laozi

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